A short story about how cosmic constructors Trurl and Klapaucius engage in inventive rivalry. Trurl, seeking redemption after creating a faulty calculating machine, builds a poetry-writing machine. Despite initial failures, the machine becomes a sensation, outshining human poets, leading to chaos and conflict. Ultimately, Trurl’s creation spirals out of control, resulting in unintended consequences and a dramatic shift in the universe’s poetic landscape, forcing him to hide from the fallout of his invention.